An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

For all of human history, death has been viewed as a final cessation of life in an organism, but new research is offering ...

The Human Cell Atlas aims to be a reference map to the trillions of cells in the human body, helping scientists diagnose and treat diseases ...

The human body has 37 trillion cells. If we can work out what they all do, the results could revolutionise our healthcare.

NUMBER AND AGGREGATE MASS OF CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY, BY CELL CLASS (Calculated for a 60-kilogram female form.) These two strands show the hierarchy of cells by number (frequency in the body) as ...

Scientists Map Out the Human Body One Cell at a Time Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body's estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and ...

There are about 100 trillion cells that make up the human body. A new megascience endeavor will catalog and image each of the 200 or more types of cells from the 80 known organs and identify the ...

Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can develop into any type of cell in the human body. So far, however, scientists only partially understand how the body controls the fate of these all ...